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Actions	Loose bodies from a knee joint Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberGC.6426 TitleLoose bodies from a knee joint DescriptionWet specimens in a glass jar. Nineteen loose bodies from a left knee joint. Removed by arthrotomy from a 29 year old woman whose trouble with her knee had commenced eight years previously after a fall at a skating rink. Recurrent effusion with occasional pain had increased in frequency and severity during some years. The fibrocartilaginous loose bodies are all more or less spherical slightly nodular and present numerous indentations and excavations. Production periodTwentieth century, early Object nameJOINT, knee Object categoryAnatomical, specimen Dimensions Jar Height: 7.8 cm Jar Diameter: 6.5 cm

Object numberGC.6426

TitleLoose bodies from a knee joint

DescriptionWet specimens in a glass jar. Nineteen loose bodies from a left knee joint. Removed by arthrotomy from a 29 year old woman whose trouble with her knee had commenced eight years previously after a fall at a skating rink. Recurrent effusion with occasional pain had increased in frequency and severity during some years. The fibrocartilaginous loose bodies are all more or less spherical slightly nodular and present numerous indentations and excavations.

Production periodTwentieth century, early

Object nameJOINT, knee

Object categoryAnatomical, specimen

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